Adding custom themes

I'll be the first to admit that out of the box Sublime Text 2 is not the prettiest thing…to look at, especially once you work in a project, and you have this light gray projects…bar next to this dark gray text editor area.…This all starts to clash a bit to my eyes, and there's nothing about the interface that is particularly attractive.…Fortunately, Sublime Text 2 has full support for custom user interface themes.…And there's a great one out there called the soda theme that I really recommend.…If you Google soda theme or just go to github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme, you'll end up at the github project page for the soda theme.…

You can scroll down and get a look at the screenshots of this theme.…This is the light variant of the theme, and this is the dark variant of that same theme.…To download the theme, just click the ZIP button at the top of the page and the file will download.…As soon as that's downloaded, you can open your Downloads folder.…If you need to extract the zip file, you can, and you'll end up with a folder called soda-theme-master.…

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2/6/2013

Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform text and code editor for OS X, Windows, and Linux with many innovative features and a thriving ecosystem of add-on packages. This course reveals some of the basic, not-so-basic, and downright hidden features of the editor, and shows you how to become a more productive developer. Author Kevin Yank shows how to write and edit basic code, tweak the editing configuration to your preference, and automate code creation with macros and snippets. He also surveys a dozen of the best add-on packages for Sublime Text, which speed up some of the more tedious programming tasks.

Topics include:

Opening, viewing, and editing files

Adding custom themes and color schemes

Performing different types of find and replace operations

Editing multiple lines simultaneously

Automating tasks with macros and snippets

Working with add-ons like Package Control, Line Endings, and Hyperlink Helper